Dominique Blain

Her body of work speaks to universal topics close to human fate.

Dominique Blain studied at Concordia University. The field of work recorded is installation art, mixed media and art of drawing. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are public art. Work by Dominique Blain is recorded in the collections of National Gallery of Canada, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, LeBer-LeMoyne House, Musée de Rimouski and The Robert McLaughlin Gallery. Distinctions recorded are Prix Paul-Émile-Borduas and Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts.

Blain was born in Montreal, Quebec, and studied art at Concordia University. She relocated to Los Angeles during the late 1980s but came back to Quebec in 1992. In 1996, she graduated from the New York Film Academy.

Her work has been shown in venues such as the Portland Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Frankfurter Kunstverein, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, the Musée de l’Europe in Brussels and the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. Major retrospectives of her work were held: in several cities in Great Britain in 1997-98 by the Arnolfini centre in Bristol (1997-1998); in Quebec City, San Francisco and Rome by the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec in 1998; and in Montreal, Regina and Calgary by the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal in 2004. She participated in the Biennale of Sydney in 1992. In Québec, she also participated in three editions of Les Cent jours d’art contemporain and exhibited her work at Galerie de l’UQAM, University of Sherbrooke art gallery, Musée régional de Rimouski and Musée d’art de Joliette. In 2022, Dominique Blain: Dérive/Drift was shown at the Image Centre, Toronto.

Blain has created and installed public art at the headquarters of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Toronto (1994), at the Grande Bibliothèque in Montreal (2005), at the Jardins de Métis in Grand-Métis (2007), at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal (2008), at the Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal (2009), and at the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde (2011).

Dominique Blain is recorded as having received Prix Paul-Émile-Borduas and Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts.

Her art is included in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Robert McLaughlin Gallery.